Not often a website has me in tears of laughter... classic!

K.

Seen in the Asahi Pentax Photography magazine (the forerunner of our late lamented magazine), Vol 1, No. 2, c. 1971 (the magazine has no date but it is clearly after the release of the ES and prior to the release of the ESII).







Kris.

K.

They weren't called the "light master" (or something similar to that, I cannot remember exactly now) for nothing! Mine has worked well for years.

K.

I have a couple of Pentax ones from the 70s.




K.

The Vivitar has a light sensor on the front. If you rotate the collar around the sensor you'll see M, or yellow, red, blue or purple showing through the little window. On the side of the flash is a dial which you rotate to the film speed you are using. If you're using 400 ASA you'll see on the dial the yellow/40ft marker against f/5.6, orange/30ft marker against f/8, etc. Roughly guess the distance, set the ring around the sensor to the appropriate colour and the aperture to the appropriate value and hey presto. Job done...

The best way of doing it is to measure the exposure using a flash meter but that is a bit slow although great in a studio situation. For multiple off camera flash it is the only way to do it.

Cheers, Kris.

Yes, that looks good to me. K.

Durham University Photography Society tour in about 1985 or 6. We had a tour around the triforium levels and the tower, and as it was a phototog trip we were given time to set-up tripods and all that. This would have been FP4, ME Super and a SMC Pentax 28mm f/2.8 lens.

Cheers, Kris.

Lovely image. Have you thought about a square crop (and loosing the top part of the image)?

K.

This one you mean?




As much as I loved Wells, Durham has a very special place in my heart.

K.